A couple Things

[Justin Bennett]

Thats what I figured... I'll do a reformat, I have the NT logon script 
set to do a time sync but Nt's default policy is not to allow anyone 
other than admin to do this. You can change this on the user rights 
section but it's a pain to do all several hundred pcs, this should be 
done at load time, but is not.... I may just address the few that are 
out of date and see what happens...

Thanks
Justin

Robert Meyer wrote:

>--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
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>>Two things.
>>
>>One: is there a quick way to erase a linux drive other than formatting. 
>>I have 107GB of user data (on several mirrored scsi drives) I backup to 
>>tape every night, before I do that I copy it to a Large harddrive so I 
>>can easily grab something from yesterday when our users blow it away. 
>>Right now I'm doin a \rm -r on the backup drive, but that beats the 
>>drive up pretty good and takes a while. I could unmount it, mke2fs -j 
>>/dev/sdb1, then remount it this would be quicker, is there an easy way 
>>I'm missing to clean a volume?
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>Nope, a newfs/mke2fs is the fastest way to clean a drive.  'rm -rf' takes
>quite a while as I'm sure that you've noticed...
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>>Two: Any easy way to supress Timestamp warnings from Tar? I know I'll 
>>get the answer fix the problem not the symptom, but these are user files 
>>systems accessed via samba, and I have no interest in being the PC time 
>>police.
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>Well, you could route 'stderr' to /dev/null:
>tar cvfz junk.tar.gz somedir >& /dev/null (tcsh) or
>tar cvfz junk.tar.gz somedir > /dev/null 2>&1
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>Unfortunately, you won't see anything else, either :-(.  Other than that, you
>*could* change the date on your system before the tar and change it back
>when you're done.
>
>I'd recommend that whoever takes care of the PCs should teach them all to use
>xntp to sync to one of the Linux servers and have the Linux server sync to
>someplace in cyberspace...
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
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